Well Read (Horde)

DISCLAIMER! - Legion releaseIf you see text with this color while reading the guide, it means the particular information isn't necessarily entirely accurate or complete. This is because some sections are new, require rewriting or are being rewritten.

As stated in the title, this is the Horde guide, click here for the Alliance version.

Introduction

Since the release of Mists of Pandaria (5.0.5), Scholomance has changed. Some books were impossible to read or have been moved to another location. This has been fixed in patch 5.1.0 and it is possible to earn Lettore accanito () again. I wrote this guide to help myself getting the achievement in 2012 and I've been refining the guide, kept it updated and added a lot of new content to it. An overview can be found in the changelog section. The biggest new addition to the guide are maps of Dalaran, Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the routes indicated on them.

FYI

This guide is written in British English since I'm from Europe, Belgium. Because of this, the 1st floors that are mentioned in the guide are actually the 2nd floor if you're American English speaking.

This guide makes heavy usage of in-game coordinates to aid in finding certain locations. Therefore it's recommended to first read the section about TomTom near the end of the guide.

Most books can be read by level 1 and above. This is not the case for the books in Scholomance and Stratholme. They require respectively level 33 and 37 to enter the instance. Note that you won't be able to read these books without the aid of a friend or party. I recommend to be at least level 60 if you want to do this on your own. (Minimum levels for dungeon finder are respectively 38 and 46.)

The approximate time it takes to do this achievement is between 30 minutes and 1 hour. This is based on your level, route taken and travel speed. It took myself about 2 hours to visit all the locations again to keep this guide updated.

Rogues can read all books while stealthed. This makes it slightly easier to read books in the opposing factions cities and settlements.

In my other guide (Well Read (Alliance)) are a lot of the required books found in Roccavento. Some of these books are only found there or in Darnassus making this achievement very hard for low level Horde players since level 110 guards will spawn to protect the zone. (This is also true for several other Alliance zones.) This achievement only awards you with and is therefore not one you should try to get as soon as you start your new character. The lowest level I recommend you start this achievement at is level 60. Be warned though that your aggro range will be big since most guards in cities are level 110 and will probably one shot you. On the other hand is 60 a good level to start this if you can afford buying Licenza del Maestro di Volo (requires to have Praticante in Equitazione and Esperto in Equitazione). This will allow you to fly in and maybe read the book after a couple of tries. This will also reduce your traveling time significantly. Buying those 3 skills will cost you for the skills and for the mount. If you're exalted with at least one faction (I recommend Orgrimmar since they have the required NPC's that sell the skills and mounts), then it's only and .

Conclusion

If your level is high enough (105+), then you should try Roccavento since you get a lot of the books in one place. The guards should be easy to kill if you're level 110 yourself.

If your level is not high enough (1-105), then you should look for the alternatives I offer for those books in Roccavento or other Alliance zones. Nevertheless there are still books only found in Alliance zones.

When you're in Sepulcra, head outside to the Ruins of Lordaeron. When you're in the center at the broken monument like building, go left. Go up the stairs and in the back of the little courtyard is the Orb of Translocation (59.4, 67.4). Clicking the word will teleport you to the Inner Sanctum in Lunargenta.

Lastly there are several items that can aid you in getting around faster.

Fastest route

Below is a recommended route you can take to make your journey a little bit faster. Next to the written route, there are also maps of Dalaran, Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms with the route indicated on them. All maps are clickable and will open in a new window or tab of / in your internet browser.

The green pins are the locations of the books or entrances to instances that yield some books like Stratholme and Scholomance. The green pin next to the number 1 in Dalaran is the portal to the Caverne del Tempo in Tanaris. The location where you spawn is also indicated with a green pin next to the number 1. The green pin next to the number 2 in Ratchet in the Savane Settentrionali is the ship to Booty Bay in Capo di Rovotorto. The location where you arrive is also indicated with a green pin next to the number 2.The green arrows are the paths that the route uses.

Start your journey at the Filthy Animal inn in Dalaran. There is one book upstairs.

When you collected the book, head to The Violet Citadel (entrance at (33.7, 49)) in Dalaran and take the portal to the Caverne del Tempo in Tanaris located at (25.5, 51.5).

Once you've arrived in the Caverne del Tempo, go inside and look for a cave entrance at the right side of the ... well ... cavern. The cave is located at about 1 circle in the cavern at (66.5, 49.5).

Now get back outside the cave and go to Gadgetzan, also in Tanaris. There is one book nowhere found elsewhere.

After the desert, go to the Bael'Dun Digsite in Mulgore. I'd take the flight path from Gadgetzan located at (52, 27.6) to Thunder Bluff. The Bael'Dun Digsite is not far from the Tauren capital.

Now when you found some ores and 3 new books, it's time to go to Ratchet in the Savane Settentrionali. There are several books to be found spread across some houses.

You'll probably now have enough of Kalimdor, so lets go to the Eastern Kingdoms of Azeroth. To do this, take the boat from Ratchet (70.1, 73.3) to Booty Bay in Capo di Rovotorto and search for all the books in houses with sometimes hard to get to entrances if you can't fly.

After Booty Bay, make your way to Stonard in the Palude del Dolore. After Stonard, head to Darkshire in Boscovespro. Darkshire has 1 book in the Scarlet Raven Tavern inn that is nowhere found elsewhere. Watch out because this is an Alliance village.

Continue your journey to Foresta di Elwynn. In the Eastvale Logging Camp lays a book only found here and Darnassus with this location being the easiest of the two.

Now for the most dangerous part of your journey, Roccavento. Roccavento has a lot of books, but to make it easy for you, only 3 books should be collected here. These books are only found in Roccavento or Darnassus, 2 Alliance capital cities and since Darnassus is not on our path, Roccavento is the best option. The books are found in Stormwind Keeps Royal Library. The books are on tables or pillars spread across the room.

The last Alliance stop is Thelsamar in Loch Modan. This is again a zone with a book found nowhere else but Karazhan.

Your next stops should be relatively easy because guess what, no more Alliance! Travel from Thelsamar in Loch Modan to Hammerfall in the Altopiani d'Arathi. There's a book waiting for you in the inn.

Up next is Tarren Mill in Alture di Colletorto. This outpost has a couple of books inside buildings and even 1 can be found in an empty coffin in the graveyard.

Three more stops to go and you're done, yeay! First go to Brill in Radure di Tirisfal. This little village has a book in front of the inn.

Your second from last stop is Sepulcra. Can you find the book in this maze?

And last but not least, Lunargenta. Lunargenta is located in the Boschi di Cantoeterno and getting there can be kind of a pain in the #@$^. Therefore it's good to know that there is an Orb of Translocation that will teleport you to this city, but first you have to find it. When you're in Sepulcra, head outside to the Ruins of Lordaeron. When you're in the center at the broken monument like building, go left. Go up the stairs and in the back of the little courtyard is the Orb of Translocation (59.4, 67.4). Clicking the word will teleport you to the Inner Sanctum in Lunargenta. Your last book here is inside the Wayfarer's Rest with its entrance at the Walk of Elders (69.4, 77).

Congratulations! You should now have earned the achievement Lettore accanito and gained .

Locations

The Guardians of Tirisfal

Filthy Animal

This book is found in the back left corner on the ground of the second floor of the inn.

This book is on a table at the top floor in the same building. To get there it's easy to go up the stairs from where the other 3 books are and go out. Mount a flying mount and fly to the balcony above you. Enter the room and you will see the book in the corner on a table. Do the same if you don't have a flying mount but instead of flying up, enter the building next to it (left if you look at the building). Go upstairs and cross the bridge.

Eastvale Logging Camp (house entrance at (85.1, 69.7))

The World Tree and the Emerald DreamThe War of the AncientsAegwynn and the Dragon HuntThe New HordeThe Guardians of TirisfalAftermath of the Second WarThe Alliance of LordaeronThe Kaldorei and the Well of EternityBeyond the Dark PortalCivil War in the PlaguelandsWar of the SpiderThe Battle of Grim BatolThe Dark Portal and the Fall of StormwindArchimonde's Return and the Flight to KalimdorMount Hyjal and Illidan's Gift

Thelsamar (house entrance at (37.2, 46.9))

This book can be found downstairs on a table.

L'Ultimo Guardiano (37.2, 47) (Also in Karazhan) (This book can also be found at the Sentinel Hill inn in Westfall according to the Wowhead page. Unfortunately, this book is not there anymore forcing you to Loch Modan.)

Sargeras and the BetrayalRise of the Blood Elves

Hammerfall

Both books are in the inn on a table. The first one is on the first floor, the second one on the second floor.

This book is at the balcony in the building with the balcony at the front (north most building). You get there by going to the second floor with the stairs at the back (they go outside of the building).

This book can only be found here in Scholomance. It's located in the room where you encounter Lilian Voss. It was removed with patch 5.0.5 and fixed with patch 5.1.0. This is also the single book that is left in here. The other books are now found in Stratholme.

Kil'jaeden and the Shadow PactThe Seven KingdomsKel'Thuzad and the Forming of the ScourgeThe Lich King TriumphantThe Birth of the Lich KingIcecrown and the Frozen ThroneWar of the SpiderCivil War in the PlaguelandsThe Scourge of Lordaeron

These books are spread out in the The Scarlet Bastion. They are all found in little side rooms. You have to enter the dungeon through the main entrance to get to this part.

Velaani's Arcane Goods (entrance at the Walk of Elders (70.3, 66))

TomTom

TomTom is your personal navigation assistant in World of Warcraft. This addon is very simple, but provides a nice set of functionality.

I can't argue with what the developers claim their add-on is. TomTom is by far the best add-on for navigation throughout Azeroth. In the quotes below is a full list of all coordinates I provide in the Locations section above. To use these coordinates, just open your macro's window (type /m in your chatbox) and copy / paste them into a new macro and run the macro (place the macro on your hotbar and press it). TomTom will add the waypoints to the map and you can go and get them without going back and forth between World of Warcraft and this guide.

The waypoints are separated so they fit in 1 macro each. The random text between '/way' and the coordinate is the map location. This has as an advantage that you can use the waypoints at a single location (Silvermoon City for example) without having to travel to each zone and use the macro's there.

A second add-on I would recommend (if you don't want to do a lot of small copy / pastes) is Paste. This add-on will let you copy the entire list, paste it in-game and by clicking on the 'Paste and Close' or 'Paste' button all locations will be set at once.

This list has no duplicate (book) coordinates and contains the entrances to both the instances with books. The list is meant to be used with the provided routes in the Fastest Route section.

About the author

World of Warcraft player and guide writer since 2012.

I am an alliance paladin as main on Frostmane EU with contracts with a horde spy on the same realm. My main time waster is achievement hunting and more particularly pve achievement hunting. At the launch of Legion I got about 91% of the pve achievements done and only about 28% of the pvp achievements.

Because of my achievement goals and the lack of information on the Lettore accanito achievement I decided to gather the scattered information I could find, do the achievement myself and write a guide for the alliance (Well Read (Alliance)) in the process. I also created a guide for the horde (Well Read (Horde)) after I finished my achievement. Both were released at about the same time. The reason behind the separation between the alliance and horde version is because it's a lot harder for the horde to get this achievement done than it is for the alliance.

Credits

I want to give credit to the following people that provided useful information that is used to make this guide even better than it was:

JohannLim - This has been fixed in patch 5.0.1 5.1.0 and is it possible to earn Lettore accanito () again.

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Commenti

Commento di JohannLim

Awesome stuff, thank you! It appeared just when I was wondering how to complete this achievement.

Small typo - under Scholomance, you say "fixed with path 5.0.1." but I think you meant "fixed with patch 5.1.0."

Commento di Hiyame

Sageras and the Betrayal is on the first floor of the inn at Hammerfall in Arathi, coordinates 69.3,32.9. Just thought you could add it if you wanted to ^^ One less stop I guess.

Commento di BZBmax

You can add "The Scourge of Lordaeron" in Booty Bay, in the same room of the 3 books but in the bookcase under the stairs. Not only in Stratholme!

Commento di BZBmax

"Charge of the Dragonflights" can be found upstairs in a house in Ratchet, entrace at 68.81-69.60.

Commento di Pepperdragon

Tip: Rogues can read all these books stealthed, which makes it slightly easier to read all the books in the opposing faction's cities/settlements.

Commento di PollyJean19

Just found a fourth book in Ratchet, upstairs at the blacksmith (67,73) "Exile of the High Elves"

Commento di Azrilar

The Betrayer Ascendant is also in Silvermoon City in the Arcane Goods store just behind Zathanna <Wand Vendor> on the crates (68,62).

Commento di amuuN

You did a really great job, thank you very much!

Commento di Franknol

Great guide! It made it very easy to complete the chieve. If you try in 6.0.2 be aware that the guards are higher level than you, they have little health but most of your attacks will miss and they hit hard!, so I suggest click the books and then run like hell.

Commento di MelanaAdara

A very helpful guide. Thank you. I have a suggestion. I've been screenshotting the books as I find them to read later. Is there any chance of a chronological list so I know which order to read them in so they make sense?

Commento di religigeek

Awesome guide! Note, if you never fully finished the questline for Booty Bay, you won't be able to get the books as they won't appear. I spent far too long trying to find them.

Commento di sisterbiglips

while trying for the books in storm wind the guards were not the issue, the issue was low levels calling in players with major(I can assume only gladiator pvp gear) and 3 of them so dead, dead, dead. Why the difference in ease of this achievement for alliance?

Commento di Goldberggdn

There are also 2 books in Karazhan in Guardian's Library (large room after Curator):

Commento di Elementi

Thank you very much, awesome guide.

One tip (sorry if it is already mentioned and I overlooked it): you can not see/read the books in Stonard until you do one quest called 'We're under attack!' from Dispatch Commander Ruag at top of the tower. For those that skipped the zone levelling.

Commento di Nyyx21

Old Hatreds is a little bit away from those coordinates: 50.97, 30.29It's near the wall closest to the ship being built, between two yellow baskets, one big, one small.

Commento di lasseedsvik

Awesome guide :) I would never done this without this one :)

Commento di lasseedsvik

Don't bother trying this achivement before you're like 110 nowdays. I went to SW and tried to sneak some books there, was a few that was only avalible in SW Keep....... not easy with 3-4 lev 100 Elite Guards attacking you. And the Kings of cities have been buffed like mad too.

Commento di Azer86x

Hi! Great guide! The only issue has been with Lethargy of the Orcs. The section on Northwatch Hold is wrong as there are no books in any of the towers. Found one of the books elsewhere, however, Lethargy of the Orcs is only available in Elwynn Forest at the Eastvale Logging Camp. Not a problem at max level though. Thanks for this! :)

Commento di cytoxin

There are no books at the Northwatch Hold location in the Southern Barrens